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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:50:03 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest!
Message-ID:  <20020312195003.GA790@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020312171249.GT63612@roman.mobil.cz>
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:12:49PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:34:34 +0100
> > From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: HIERARCHY BATTLE: Beat the shit out of the rest!
>  
> > There is a hierarchy that FreeBSD uses, the only minorly controversial point,
> > that I believe gets discussed at every level from time to time over the
> > years is the use of "/usr/local". This is really a semantic problem, in
> > that "local" implies for a lot of people, their own "stuff" .. i.e.
> > programs, scripts docs etc that they produce themselves. In FreeBSD it
> > is the home of installed programs that are not part of the base
> > distribution, viz. "ports". (Forgetting about X11 for a moment which
> > plays by it's own rules). You can change this I believe if you really
> > want to.
> 
>     Yes. You could put e. g. "LOCAL_BASE=/opt" in /etc/make.conf.
>  
> > But if you go with the current hierarchy then the only thing you have to
> > consider is what to do with your really local, local stuff :).
> 
>     Or you could install your really local, local stuff to /opt or
>     /local... I don't like the commingling of user dirs with the std.
>     hierarchy as described below. But that's just me.
>  
I think you just choose what you find easiest to work with. Your scheme
is also a good idea..mine is the lazy way, since my backup scripts just
backup everything in /home unless I explicitly exclude any directory.

> > I simply have an equivalent hierarchy under /home, i.e.
> >     /home/bin
> >     /home/sbin
> >     /home/etc
> >     ...and so on
> 
> -- 
> FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE
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Regards
   Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>

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